George Woolfolk graduated from Transylvania University in 1811. He represented Shelby County in the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1822 to 1828. George lived in Shelbyville, Kentucky, until 1831 when he moved to Paducah were he laid out the city.

Note: It is through George Woolfolk who as the executor of General George Rogers Clark (the uncle of his wife) that the general’s turkey plater was passed down into the possession of his 3rd great grandson, C. Kirk Avent.